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Encouraging one another is what Hamilton students do every day. There’s an unspoken yet unwavering commitment among them to lift each other up.

Just like the Writing and Oral Communication centers help students hone their writing and speaking skills, Hamilton’s Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning (QSR) Center focuses on another aspect of the College’s curriculum by assisting students taking courses with a mathematics/quantitative component or who need statistical support for theses, research, and projects.

Eight individuals have received fellowships focused on innovations in digital pedagogy under a new program sponsored jointly by the Dean of Faculty and the Library Information Technology Services (LITS).

Mary B. O’Neill, former director of Hamilton’s Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center, was a co-editor of QMaSC: A Handbook for Directors of Quantitative and Mathematics Support Centers, published recently by the University of Florida Scholars Commons.

Benjamin Smith, director of the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center (QSR),  presented a pre-conference workshop titled "Technological resources for the modern learning center: Online, offline, and on the go" at the annual meeting of the Association for the Tutoring Profession held March 23-26 in Nashville, Tenn.

Mary B. O'Neill, former director of the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center at Hamilton, participated in the Joint Math Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America conference, in January in Baltimore.

Mary O'Neill, former director of the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center at Hamilton College, co-hosted a national workshop in July in Hartford, Conn.

Mary O’Neill, academic support coordinator and director of the Quantitative Literacy Center, presented a paper on Jan. 10 at the Joint Math Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society (JMM) in San Diego.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $49,652 grant to St. Lawrence University enabling St. Lawrence professor Michael Schuckers, Bates College’s Mathematics and Statistics Workshop director Grace Coulombe, and Mary O’Neill, director of the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning (QSR) Center at Hamilton, to create and develop a workshop and handbook for mathematics and science academic support professionals at colleges and universities.

Hamilton’s Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning (QSR) Center held a grand opening in its new offices in the former Media Library on the third floor of C. A. Johnson, (CJ 303), on Sunday, Sept. 9.